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GRESSET, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres de M. Gresset.

Londres, Edouard Kelmarneck, 1748.

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Jean-Baptiste Gresset (1709 -1777) was a French poet and playwright, who was a Jesuit from 1726 to 1735.

[PECQUET, Antoine].

Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'Histoire de Perse.

Amsterdam, Aux Dépens De La Compagnie, 1746.

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300 €

This book is a satire of the political and gallant intrigues of the court of Louis XIV, in the form of false "Mémoires" (Persia becomes France and all the protagonists are named with oriental names). The key to the understanding is given at the end of the text.
In reality, this satirical book deals with the History of France and Europe from the death of Louis XIV to the reign of Louis XV.
It is also the first book, in which the story of the famous "Iron Mask" is mentionned.
Following the publication, the author was jailed in La Bastille.

CERVANTES, Miguel de.

Les principales avantures de l'admirable Don Quichotte représentées en figures par Coypel, Picart le Romain, et autres habiles maîtres avec les explications des XXXI planches de cette magnifique collection tirées de l'original espagnol de Miguel de Cervantes.

La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1746.

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6000 €

Scarce in Folio format of this edition of the Don Quichotte, usually found in-4to.
Engravings in first state without numbers.

[GRANET, Abbé François].

Recueil de dissertations sur plusieurs tragédies de Corneille et de Racine, avec des réflexions pour & contre la critique des ouvrages d'esprit, et des jugemens sur ces dissertations.

Paris, Gissey, 1740.

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150 €

Book which revives the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns through the critical study of the tragedies of Corneille and Racine.

[MEUSNIER de QUERLON, Anne-Gabriel].

Les soupers de Daphné et Les dortoirs de Lacedemone.

[Paris], s.n., 1740.

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600 €

Rare first edition.
A key of the understanding is given by Barbier is hand-written on the last extra leaf of the volume.

This book is a pretty sharp satire about the dinners given at Marly.
Some anecdotes, mostly sexual, were gathering by Monnet.
We can notice that a part of the texte is a clear allusion to freemasonry, its rituals and its symbols.

[VOLTAIRE].

Vie de Molière avec des jugemens sur ses ouvrages.

Paris, Prault fils, 1739.

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700 €

First edition.
This Life of Molière was commissioned from Voltaire to complete the 4to edition illustrated by Boucher published in 1734 by Prault. But the bookshop censor refused Voltaire's text and published a biographical work of La Serre instead.

[TENCIN, Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin; Marquise de].

Mémoires du Comte de Comminge.

La Haye, J.Neaulme, 1735.

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750 €

Very good and fresh copy.

LORRIS Guillaume de & MEUNG Jean de.

Le Roman de la Rose, par Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun, dit Clopinel.
Revu sur plusieurs éditions & sur quelques anciens manuscrits. Accompagné de plusieurs autres ouvrages, d'une préface historique, de notes & d'un glossaire.

Paris, Veuve Pissot, 1735.

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1250 €

With the rare "Supplément au glossaire du Roman de la Rose (J.-B. Lantin de Damerey). 1737, J.Sirot at Dijon".

DU FRENY, Rivière.

Oeuvres de Monsieur Rivière du Freny.

Paris, Briasson, 1731.

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300 €

First edition.

LONGUS.

Les amours pastorales Daphnis et Chloé.

[Paris], [Coustelier], [1731].

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1500 €

Edition normally illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 figures by Scotin, and 4 unsigned vignettes.
In this copy, the illustrations from Scotin have been replaced by the famous suite "de Regenté, including a frontispiece by Coypel (replacing the title page dated 1731) and 28 superb figures including 13 doubles, engraved by Benoît Audran after the drawings of the regent Philippe d'Orléans.
The engraving "Petits pieds", engraved in 1728 and attributed to the Comte de Caylus has been, as often, added.

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres diverses de Mr. de Rousseau.

Amsterdam, François Changuion, 1729.

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150 €

Beautiful edition illustrated by Debrie, Picart, Duflos, Bernarts. The engravings printed on heavy paper are well contrasted.

VOLTAIRE.

La Henriade. On y a ajouté la critique de ce poème.
[relié à la suite] :
- Essai sur les Guerres civiles de France. 1729. De Merville , La Haye.

La Haye, Gosse Néaulme, 1728.

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200 €

First edition in french of the "l'essai sur les guerres civiles de France. ".

FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bouyer de.

Oeuvres Diverses de M. de Fontenelle.

Paris, Michel Brunet, 1724.

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175 €

Edition by Brunet which contains the Praises, The Oracles, The Dialogues of the Dead (and of the Moderns), The Plurality of Worlds.

GHERARDI, Evariste.

Le Théâtre Italien de Gherardi, ou Le Recueil Général de toutes le Comédies and Scènes Françoises jouées par les Comédiens Italiens du Roy.

Paris, Pierre Witte, 1717.

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600 €

The Italian Comedy or Italian Theater was the competing theater troupe of the French Comedy (born from the merger of Molière's troupe and that of the Hotel de Bourgogne) at the end of the 17th century.
His repertoire, assembled here by Evariste Gherardi, was inspired by both characters from the Commedia dell'arte and French authors. I
t was dissolved in 1697 following the announcement of the False Prude (who attacked Maintenon) then returned to Paris under the Regency in 1716.

TERRASSON, Jean.

Dissertation critique sur l'Iliade d'Homère.

Paris, François Fournier, 1715.

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150 €

First edition.

LA FONTAINE, Jean.

Fables choisies, mises en vers par Monsieur de la Fontaine et par lui revues, corrigées & augmentées de nouveau.

Lyon, François Sarrazin, 1696.

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400 €

This edition appeared only a year after the death of La Fontaine, the permission granted to François Sarrazin also mentions that La Fontaine lost the privilege on his fables in 1692.

Fables chosen by La Fontaine divided into nine books, we find the fables that made the author famous: The cicada and the ant, the wolf and the lamb, the hare and the tortoise.

BUSSY RABUTIN, Roger de.

Discours du Comte de Bussy Rabutin a ses enfans, sur le bon usage des adversitez et les divers évènemens de sa vie.

Paris, Anisson, 1694.

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350 €

First edition.
Libertine, satyrist and pamphleteer of the reign of Louis XIV, Bussy-Rabutin was exiled to his castle in Burgundy following his Histoire des Gaules.
He will write there this discourse, wiser, which was not published until after his death.

LA BRUYERE, Jean de.

Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec : avec les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce siècle.

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1694.

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250 €

Eighth original edition.
"Les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce siècle" by the French moralist Jean de la Bruyère (1645 - 1696) is one of the major works of French literature.
The first edition dates from 1688, the following nine editions from 1688 to 1696 are increased with each publication of new texts.
This edition contains 46 characters that had not yet been published (Cydias, Clitophon, Antagoras, etc.), as well as the Reception Speech at the Académie française which is attached for the first time to the Characters.

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas.

Entretiens sur la Metaphysique & sur la Religion.

Rotterdam, Reiner Leers, 1688.

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300 €

First edition.
The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

[SCUDERY, Georges de].

Guerre comique dédiée à Madame de Lyonne.

Paris, Claude Barbin, 1668.

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250 €

First edition.
Burlesque poem imitated from Homer's "Batrachomyomachia" (Battle of frogs and rats).

[CURIOSA] ARETIN, Pierre.

Les Sonnets luxurieux.

Paris, [Jacques Haumont], 1624 [v. 1947].

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50 €

Copy on Arches paper unnumbered.

JODELLE, Étienne.

Les Œuvres et Meslanges poetiques. Reveuës & augmentees en ceste derniere edition.

Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, 1597.

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1800 €

Third edition.
Rare.

ESTIENNE, Henri.

Epigrammata Graeca selecta ex Anthologia.

[Genève], Henri Estienne, 1570.

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600 €

Printed by Henri Estienne, this collection is composed of the anthology formed of 260 Greek epigrams already published by him in 1566 but here enriched by his own translations into Latin prose, as well as by original translations in verse by himself and by Paulus Melissus.
This publication caused the imprisonment of Henri Estienne, who had not previously requested permission to publish from the Council of Geneva.

TERENCE.

P. Terentii Comoediae , tum ex Donati commentariis, tum ex optimorum, praesertim veterum, exemplarium collatione.

Paris, Robert Estienne, 1541.

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600 €

Edition given by Robert Estienne.
The comedies of Terence offer an insight into daily life and Roman society at the time. They will have had a significant influence on later European comic literature from the Renaissance. Terence's Comedies held the role for Comedy that Aristotle's Poetics held for other works of fiction. Its patterns of structure and characterization have been studied and adapted by many playwrights and authors, helping to shape the theatrical tradition.

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Litterature

GRESSET, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres de M. Gresset.

New edition, reviewed, corrected, considerably increased by the author. Fine copy. Jean-Baptiste Gresset (1709 -1777) was a French poet and playwright, who was a Jesuit from 1726 to 1735.

[PECQUET, Antoine].

Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'Histoire de Perse.

CERVANTES, Miguel de.

Les principales avantures de l'admirable Don Quichotte représentées en figures par Coypel, Picart le Romain, et autres habiles maîtres avec les explications des XXXI planches de cette magnifique collection tirées de l'original espagnol de Miguel de Cervantes.

Scarce in Folio format of this edition of the Don Quichotte, usually found in-4to. Engravings in first state without numbers.

[GRANET, Abbé François].

Recueil de dissertations sur plusieurs tragédies de Corneille et de Racine, avec des réflexions pour & contre la critique des ouvrages d'esprit, et des jugemens sur ces dissertations.

Book which revives the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns through the critical study of the tragedies of Corneille and Racine.

[MEUSNIER de QUERLON, Anne-Gabriel].

Les soupers de Daphné et Les dortoirs de Lacedemone.

[VOLTAIRE].

Vie de Molière avec des jugemens sur ses ouvrages.

First edition.This Life of Molière was commissioned from Voltaire to complete the 4to edition illustrated by Boucher published in 1734 by Prault. But the bookshop censor refused Voltaire's text and published a biographical work of La Serre instead.

[TENCIN, Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin; Marquise de].

Mémoires du Comte de Comminge.

Very good and fresh copy.

LORRIS Guillaume de & MEUNG Jean de.

Le Roman de la Rose, par Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun, dit Clopinel. Revu sur plusieurs éditions & sur quelques anciens manuscrits. Accompagné de plusieurs autres ouvrages, d'une préface historique, de notes & d'un glossaire.

With the rare "Supplément au glossaire du Roman de la Rose (J.-B. Lantin de Damerey). 1737, J.Sirot at Dijon".

DU FRENY, Rivière.

Oeuvres de Monsieur Rivière du Freny.

First edition.

LONGUS.

Les amours pastorales Daphnis et Chloé.

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres diverses de Mr. de Rousseau.

Beautiful edition illustrated by Debrie, Picart, Duflos, Bernarts. The engravings printed on heavy paper are well contrasted.

VOLTAIRE.

La Henriade. On y a ajouté la critique de ce poème. [relié à la suite] : - Essai sur les Guerres civiles de France. 1729. De Merville , La Haye.

First edition in french of the "l'essai sur les guerres civiles de France. ".

FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bouyer de.

Oeuvres Diverses de M. de Fontenelle.

Edition by Brunet which contains the Praises, The Oracles, The Dialogues of the Dead (and of the Moderns), The Plurality of Worlds.

GHERARDI, Evariste.

Le Théâtre Italien de Gherardi, ou Le Recueil Général de toutes le Comédies and Scènes Françoises jouées par les Comédiens Italiens du Roy.

TERRASSON, Jean.

Dissertation critique sur l'Iliade d'Homère.

First edition.

LA FONTAINE, Jean.

Fables choisies, mises en vers par Monsieur de la Fontaine et par lui revues, corrigées & augmentées de nouveau.

BUSSY RABUTIN, Roger de.

Discours du Comte de Bussy Rabutin a ses enfans, sur le bon usage des adversitez et les divers évènemens de sa vie.

First edition.Libertine, satyrist and pamphleteer of the reign of Louis XIV, Bussy-Rabutin was exiled to his castle in Burgundy following his Histoire des Gaules. He will write there this discourse, wiser, which was not published until after his death.

LA BRUYERE, Jean de.

Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec : avec les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce siècle.

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas.

Entretiens sur la Metaphysique & sur la Religion.

First edition.The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

[SCUDERY, Georges de].

Guerre comique dédiée à Madame de Lyonne.

First edition.Burlesque poem imitated from Homer's "Batrachomyomachia" (Battle of frogs and rats).

[CURIOSA] ARETIN, Pierre.

Les Sonnets luxurieux.

Copy on Arches paper unnumbered.

JODELLE, Étienne.

Les Œuvres et Meslanges poetiques. Reveuës & augmentees en ceste derniere edition.

Third edition. Rare.

ESTIENNE, Henri.

Epigrammata Graeca selecta ex Anthologia.

TERENCE.

P. Terentii Comoediae , tum ex Donati commentariis, tum ex optimorum, praesertim veterum, exemplarium collatione.

New edition, reviewed, corrected, considerably increased by the author. Fine copy.

Jean-Baptiste Gresset (1709 -1777) was a French poet and playwright, who was a Jesuit from 1726 to 1735.

Scarce in Folio format of this edition of the Don Quichotte, usually found in-4to.
Engravings in first state without numbers.

First edition.
This Life of Molière was commissioned from Voltaire to complete the 4to edition illustrated by Boucher published in 1734 by Prault. But the bookshop censor refused Voltaire's text and published a biographical work of La Serre instead.

Le Roman de la Rose, par Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun, dit Clopinel.
Revu sur plusieurs éditions & sur quelques anciens manuscrits. Accompagné de plusieurs autres ouvrages, d'une préface historique, de notes & d'un glossaire.

La Henriade. On y a ajouté la critique de ce poème.
[relié à la suite] :
- Essai sur les Guerres civiles de France. 1729. De Merville , La Haye.

First edition.
Libertine, satyrist and pamphleteer of the reign of Louis XIV, Bussy-Rabutin was exiled to his castle in Burgundy following his Histoire des Gaules.
He will write there this discourse, wiser, which was not published until after his death.

First edition.
The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

First edition.
Burlesque poem imitated from Homer's "Batrachomyomachia" (Battle of frogs and rats).

Third edition.
Rare.